Great Friend Of Mine - 2009 Desperate Songs

Band : Great Friend Of Mine

Album : Desperate Songs

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Post-Hardcore / Screamo / Experimental

 

Tracklist:

1.Zvuk (7-2521)
2.We,
3.Harrison Bergeron
4.Tabula Rasa
5.A Benny Hymn
6.(A Man Is Born)
7.Monarch
8.This Shitty
9.Twenty Twelve
10.Iceberg
11.The World
12.Tisina (5-3000)

esperate Songs plays out a bit like a more dissonant hybrid of the thicker but pissed modern hardcore influence of Life Long Tragedy with a less professional-sounding, condensed take on the darkly swirling post-metal soundscapes of Red Sparowes, without necessarily catering too heavily to either field. They've got their effects pedals, sure, but they're used with a profoundly insistent manner of tastefulness and a solid grip on dynamism. There's a restrained pacing here that's played off well for a more enlivened drive in "We,", or the outraged desperation and thumping stop-starts of "Tabula Rasa." The band claims Refused and Thursday as influences in the liner notes, but that'll be obvious to some--it practically sounds like Geoff Rickly is guesting in "Monarch," while the piano and harmonica-inflected "(A Man Is Born)" employs the experimentation of Waiting and the morose, instrumentally esoteric vibe of "The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax" all at once. And in "This Shitty," where their singer's raspy request to "bring back the new noise" is followed by an explosion of noise from a highly populated crowd? Take a guess.
 Overall, Desperate Songs is maintained with a vivid, realized, and surprisingly fresh scope that belies its completely homespun base of creation. DIY seems of utmost importance to this quartet, so if they continue to avoid outside interference (great friends or otherwise), as long as they manage to progress and grow into their endless potential one can only encourage them to continue going it alone. 

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